Serve as the technical lead across platform and backend engineering — owning architecture decisions, facilitating cross-team coordination, and ensuring consistent development standards.
Design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs using Django/Python and Go, with a focus on reliability, performance, and scalability.
Proactively identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, security risks, and reliability gaps before they become production incidents.
Mentor and develop engineers across the team — providing clear, constructive technical guidance and helping others grow in ownership and scope.
Contribute to frontend development in React, particularly around platform integrations and internal tooling.
Be a dependable presence on-call and in production — you take ownership of issues through to resolution and document your learnings as repeatable processes.

Strong ability to write well-structured, idiomatic, Python and Go with a deep understanding of the Django ecosystem.
Hands-on experience integrating payment systems (Stripe, Worldpay, Braintree, or similar)
Demonstrated ability to lead technical architecture discussions and produce clear, defensible design decisions with appropriate trade-off analysis.
Experience with RESTful API design, WebSockets, and asynchronous/event-driven architectures.
Strong understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch) including schema design, query optimization, indexing and transactional integrity.
Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and modern DevOps tooling.
React (or similar) development experience — comfortable contributing to or reviewing frontend work within a full-stack platform context.
Reliable and dependable – you follow through, communicate proactively, and treat your commitments seriously.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Senior Platform Engineer, Tech Lead, Django, Go, React

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